The 2012 BMW 650i is many things — beautiful, powerful, luxurious — but is it a family car? Cars.com Family contributor Sara Lacey says yes, but there’s a lot of qualifications to that answer. The 650i is a coupe, which could lead to many complaints from kids who will struggle to get into the backseat, and it has a small backseat that doesn’t work well with many child-safety seats. Once you hear and feel this four-seater’s 400-horsepower, turbocharged 4.4-liter V-8, though, you might not worry too much about how the car seats fit in it.
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